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• Mike Johnson may be the speaker, but Democrats will still have power

  03-01-2025 23:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Yes, Republicans have a trifecta. Yes, Trump is president. But hardliners’ inability to take yes for an answer means Democrats can act as the ‘governing majority,’ in a coalition with Mike Johnson
  
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• Arizona pastor used hidden camera to record women using church bathroom, cops say

  06-01-2025 01:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Arturo Laguna, a faith leader at the Casa de Adoracion in Phoenix, was taken into custody weeks ago and faces multiple charges of voyeurism
  
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• Suspect arrested for reportedly saying he had a bomb in New Orleans’ French Quarter - days after a terror attack killed 14

  06-01-2025 01:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The alleged bomb threat was made just a block away from where the terror attack happened
  
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• Your social security payment might be going up thanks to Biden. Here’s why

  06-01-2025 01:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act – which is set to impact around three million people across the country – rights a decades-old disparity
  
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• Australia news live: Etihad plane aborts Melbourne takeoff at last second due to tyre damage; Labor pledges $7bn for Bruce Highway

  06-01-2025 00:44 via theguardian.com
  Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLambie says Albanese decision to campaign over holidays ‘bizarre’Senator Jacqui Lambie has questioned whether Anthony Albanese would call an early election, amid his pre-election campaign blitz across multiple states this week.Most people don’t want to see a politician over this … three weeks, you know, from about the 20th probably to about the 10th or 15th of January. So to be out t
  
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• TikTok could be banned in the US in days. Creators are left in limbo

  06-01-2025 00:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The fate of TikTok is keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision from the Supreme Court that could upheld their livelihoods
  
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• Democratic senator blasts RFK Jr’s vaccine theories ahead of confirmation hearings: ‘Kids will get killed’

  06-01-2025 00:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Conspiracy theorist’s anti-vax stance has many fearing effects of him leading HHS
  
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• FBI investigates potential associates of New Orleans attacker in US and abroad

  05-01-2025 23:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials say evidence supports theory suspect, 42, carried out deadly attack alone but reveal leads are being pursuedFederal authorities investigating the avowed Islamic State (IS) sympathizer who carried out the New Year’s Day Bourbon Street terror attack in New Orleans said they are still investigating his potential associates elsewhere in the US and abroad.In a news briefing, officials from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said they were pursuin
  
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• Expanded seven-day health hubs to help tackle NHS waiting times in England

  05-01-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Proposals to be outlined by Keir Starmer will offer patients 500,000 more appointments a year, as health secretary says without reforms NHS could collapse ‘like Woolworths’Patients in England will be offered 500,000 more appointments a year via seven-day health hubs under plans to tackle lengthy waiting times, as ministers warned the NHS could collapse like Woolworths without major reform.Millions of people will be able to access checks, tests and scans closer to home as the health s
  
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• Amber weather warning for snow in northern England extended to Monday

  05-01-2025 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Met office warns of continued likely travel delays, stranded vehicles and power cuts due to wintry conditionsIn pictures: snowfall in England and WalesHeavy overnight snow in Wales and northern England has caused travel disruption as the new year gets off to a cold start.The Met Office updated an amber weather warning for snow in northern England to run into Monday morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Musk gets good news a day after Italian PM visits Trump as Rome announces potential $1.6bn SpaceX deal

  05-01-2025 23:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ongoing talks ‘appeared to move forward’ after meeting, according to reports
  
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• Trump slammed for celebrating Jan 6 at secretive party at Mar-a-Lago: Live updates

  05-01-2025 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s Mar-a-Lago party came as Elon Musk feuded with Nigel Farage online
  
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• Melania documentary to be screened by Amazon in latest Trump Bezos connection

  05-01-2025 22:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incoming first lady will be the subject of new film directed by Brett Ratner
  
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• Hamas approves list of 34 Israeli hostages for ceasefire negotiations: report

  05-01-2025 21:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Negotiators have made little progress towards an enduring ceasefire over a year into deadly conflict and humanitarian crisis, while another 102 Palestinians were reported killed in Israeli airstrikes over the weekend
  
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• Pelosi says her husband is still suffering from effects of hammer attack as she condemns pro-Trump violence

  05-01-2025 21:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Speaker emerita says ‘sick’ Trump needs to stop fixating on 2020 defeat
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne dies aged 32

  05-01-2025 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Tributes flood in for ‘warm-hearted and amazing’ drag artist James Lee WilliamsJames Lee Williams, known as drag artist The Vivienne, has died at the age of 32, their public relations representative announced on Sunday.Simon Jones posted on Instagram: “It is with immense sadness that we let you know our beloved James Lee Williams – The Vivienne, has passed this weekend. Continue reading...
  
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• Football-loving nun named world’s oldest living person reveals her secret

  05-01-2025 21:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sister Inah Canabarro nearly didn’t survive childhood
  
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• Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day

  05-01-2025 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis findsMore than 1,000 patients a day in England are suffering “potential harm” because of ambulance handover delays, the Guardian can reveal.In the last year, 414,137 patients are believed to have experienced some level of harm because they spent so long in the back of ambulances waiting to get into hospital. Of those, 44,409 – more than 850 a week – suffered “se
  
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• Republicans try to exploit New Orleans attack to push through Trump agenda

  05-01-2025 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump loyalists make baseless link between attack and US border and say cabinet nominees must be urgently ratifiedRepublicans in the US Senate are attempting to exploit the New Year’s Day attack that killed 14 victims in New Orleans, injuring dozens more, to push through Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet nominations and rocket-charge the incoming president’s anti-immigration agenda – despite the fact that the attacker was a US citizen born and raised in east Texas
  
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• ‘Titan’ of Welsh politics Jenny Randerson dies aged 76

  05-01-2025 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Tributes paid to Lib Dem peer and former Wales culture minister who introduced free entry to museumsTributes have been paid to Jenny Randerson, a “titan” of Welsh politics who introduced free entry to museums in Wales, after her death at the age of 76.Lady Randerson brought in the measure while a minister in the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition in the Welsh parliament between 2000 and 2003. She died on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• Melania documentary to be screened by Amazon in latest Trump connection with Jeff Bezos

  05-01-2025 19:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incoming first lady will be the subject of new film directed by Brett Ratner
  
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• Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform

  05-01-2025 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  It is unclear what prompted Musk to write on X that Farage ‘doesn’t have what it takes’ to be Reform UK’s leaderElon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader hours after Farage described the billionaire businessman as “a hero”, in what is likely to be a preview of how a chaotic Donald Trump presidency could affect British politics.Farage, who is also the de facto owner of Reform, “doesn’t have what it takes”, Musk s
  
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• Tributes paid after former Greek PM Costas Simitis dies aged 88

  05-01-2025 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Four days of mourning declared for death of Pasok party co-founder, thearchitect of country’s entry into euroTributes have been paid to the former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis, who with dogged determination guided Greece into the eurozone and took the vital steps to ensure it was ready to host the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.News of Simitis’s death at the age of 88 was met on Sunday with outpourings from across the political spectrum, with friends and foes alike voicing admi
  
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• New Orleans attacker used Meta glasses to record Bourbon Street before rampage

  05-01-2025 19:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Texas man visited New Orleans twice in months leading up to New Year’s Day truck attack
  
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• Austria’s president to meet far-right leader amid coalition speculation

  05-01-2025 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘New path’ to power may be opening for FPÖ after collapse of talks between country’s centrist partiesAustria’s president has said he will meet the leader of the country’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), amid speculation that the pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam party will be tasked with trying to form a government after centrist parties failed to find agreement.The Alpine country of 9 million has been plunged into political crisis after the collapse of coalition tal
  
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• New Orleans Saints and NFL donate $1m to victims of terror attack

  05-01-2025 18:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Team and the NFL will donate to victims of attack on New Year’s Day that left 14 people dead and 35 others injuredThe New Orleans Saints and the National Football League in which they compete have pledged to donate $1m to the victims of the Bourbon Street terror attack on New Year’s Day that left 14 people dead and 35 others injured.In a press release issued on Saturday, the Saints and their owner, Gayle Benson, who pledged $500,000, said: “Our community has experienced an unim
  
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• Chuck Schumer denies his party ‘misled’ Americans about Biden’s decline

  05-01-2025 18:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Senate Democratic leader pushes back against voter anger which cost his party the 2024 election
  
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• A Melania Trump documentary from director Bruce Ratner will be released by Amazon

  05-01-2025 18:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Incoming first lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new documentary directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by Amazon Prime Video
  
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• Elon Musk exports MAGA civil war to UK as he claims Nigel Farage ‘doesn’t have what it takes’: Live

  05-01-2025 18:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president-elect weighed in on a reconciliation package, reportedly telling the House Speaker he prefers one piece of legislation
  
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• Ripe for the picking? Irish wine on the up – but ‘nobody will retire rich’

  05-01-2025 16:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Global heating has made conditions more favourable for growing grapes – and finding the right variety is keyHeard the one about Irish wine? Like its English counterpart, it is no longer a joke, with more than a dozen vineyards now producing bottles to emulate those of the terroirs of France, Spain and Italy.At about €60 (£50) a bottle and produced in small quantities, it is far from a commercial activity, but efforts over the last 10 years have produced what one retailer describ
  
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